Leila : a novel / Prayaag Akbar.
Publication details: London : Faber & Faber, 2018.Description: 265 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780571341313
- 823.92 23
- PR9499.4.A43 L45 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | AKB | Available | 068408 |
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Every year on Leila's birthday Shalini kneels by the wall with a little yellow spade and scoops dry earth to make a pit for two candles. One each for herself and for Riz, the husband at her side. But as Shalini walks from the patch of grass where she held her vigil the man beside her melts away. It is sixteen years since they took her, her daughter's third birthday party, the last time she saw the three people she loves most dearly: her mother, her husband, her child. Soon to be adapted for the screen as a Netflix Original.